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District adopts CAPT for grades 7–12 to replace discontinued RI; rollout starts this spring
Summary
Central York SD will deploy the CAPT diagnostic for grades 7–12, using three core subtests initially (sentence processing, reading efficiency, reading comprehension) to produce Lexile scores and national percentiles; high school testing has already occurred and middle-school testing is imminent.
Central York SD staff told the curriculum committee on May 5 that the district will adopt the CAPT assessment for grades 7–12 after the previous RI/SRI reading assessment became unavailable through Scholastic.
A district staff member and the high-school reading specialist evaluated alternatives and selected CAPT, which yields Lexile measures and national-percentile scores and includes six subtests in total. "We found what I consider to be a remarkably better tool. And it is called the CAPT assessment," the presenter said. At the secondary level the…
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